Trump To U.N. General Assembly: ‘The Future Does Not Belong To Globalists’

President Trump addresses the U.N. General Assembly at United Nations headquarters on Tuesday in New York City. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

At the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, President Trump told world leaders to reject “globalism” and to look out for the interests of their own countries first.

“The future does not belong to globalists; it belongs to patriots,” Trump said.

Tuesday marked Trump’s third address to the General Assembly as president. As he has done in the past, Trump used his remarks to the international organization to make the case for his “America first” style of diplomacy that puts nationalism ahead of multilateral efforts.

Since entering the White House, Trump has pulled the U.S. out of several international agreements, including the Paris climate accords and the Iran nuclear deal.

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Joel Cholo Brooks is a Liberian journalist who previously worked for several international news outlets including the BBC African Service. He is the CEO of the Global News Network which publishes two local weeklies, The Star and The GNN-Liberia Newspapers. He is a member of the Press Union Of Liberia (PUL) since 1986, and several other international organizations of journalists, and is currently contributing to the South Africa Broadcasting Corporation as Liberia Correspondent.